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User In Yer Face, a worst-practise UI experiment (2018)
- docheinestages 3y agohttps://imgur.com/S0dPEZn https://imgur.com/S0dPEZn
- nicetryguy 3y agoI got 7:39; nice one! As funny as this is; it truly sarcastically encapsulates everything that is wrong with modern web design.
- EmileSonneveld 3y agoI got 8:13. Checking all the checks took the most time
- alex-moon 3y agoI couldn't get past the captchas. I wonder if it's possible to do so...?
- 4pkjai 3y agoI failed it a few times, but passed when I got the glasses option and selected every box.
- alex-moon 3y agoWhat did you put for light and circle ones?
- codetiger 3y agoMost of the images in light, bow and circle has to be selected. I passed the test in bow with all images selected.
- gamerDude 3y agoThey all have bows. Bow ties. Hunting bows. And people bowing.
- GauntletWizard 3y agoI was disappointed there were no "bow"s of a ship. I guess they all fell off.
- 4pkjai 3y agoVery clever, I enjoyed getting past all that. I have seen the "needs-to-be-deleted" placeholder text in the wild before. It's very silly.
- thih9 3y ago(mild spoiler alert) It took me 00:06:20 to complete and I enjoyed it a lot. I especially liked the ambiguous form state; I was never sure which part of the form is active or has been selected. I appreciate that it didn't feel needlessly unfair; e.g. when I accidentally clicked a "select all" button that undid all my work, there was also an "unselect all" button within reach. Loosely related: "The worst volume control UI in the world", https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950 https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world... .
- wizofaus 3y agoThe ultimate Turing test? I'm willing to bet not even ChatGPT-11 will have the sheer boneheaded level of determination only a human could ever achieve...
- sergiomattei 3y agoSeven minutes. The most aggravating seven minutes of my life.
- madisonmay 3y agoThanks, I hate it.
- isp 3y agoRelated - "Engineers are competing who creates the worst UI on Reddit" - https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755496852475906 https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755496852475906 I particularly like: - https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755496852475906 https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755496852475906 - "Enter your phone number" - https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755532394889219 https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755532394889219 - "Volume control" - https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755789313069057 https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755789313069057 - "Checkbox with a 50% success rate"
- SimonPStevens 3y agoOh the irony of examples of bad UI being posted on twitter where I just get half a UI loading with spinners and can't see anything.
- andrepd 3y agoI've got automatic redirects to nitter set up on all my devices.
- throwaway173738 3y agoDon’t give Facebook any ideas.
- RobotToaster 3y agoThe QR code one could be made 1000% more annoying by making it one of those slider puzzles.
- all2 3y agoI now want a QR code slider puzzle.
- thimabi 3y agoReal dark mode is great! I can actually see myself profiting from such a design in order to focus in dimly-lit environments. https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755808300519426?s=20 https://twitter.com/volodarik/status/1657755808300519426?s=2...
- _joel 3y agoWow, those timers are fear inducing
- cwillu 3y agoHow can we help?
- alphabetter 3y ago4'17 mostly because I was laughing so hard. The captcha with the hononyms and the selection boxes where you don't expect them is genius.
- tsu_tsu 3y agoCan't even beat level 1... are there more pages than just the frontpage!?
- pelagicAustral 3y agoI love that meme of the Phone number input being a trackbar.
- julian_t 3y agoMy pet insurer's web site has a box for you to enter your policy number, which only accepts numbers and has a spinner. The policy number is seven digits long. It's sort of fun typing the first few and then playing with the up and down arrows.
- pedro_hab 3y agoThe pw really stressed me, I checked the source code to find what a valid pw looked like. Pretty cool code btw, it has a rule array that with the error msgs, very easy to follow even tho it was webpacky. Then I realized the errors were displayed at the bottom of the page.
- mellosouls 3y agoBrilliant website! Previous extensive discussions fwiw: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27635310 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27635310 (2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565 (2019)
- dang 3y agoThanks! Macroexpanded: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27635310 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27635310 - June 2021 (215 comments) User Inyerface - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20345826 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20345826 - July 2019 (1 comment) User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565 - July 2019 (255 comments)
- ra1n 3y agoThe send to bottom button making the dialog go down slowly was so hilarious !
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- codeulike 3y agothat got me too. The very slow speed of it
- noman-land 3y agoBrilliant work. This is the equivalent of internet hell. Horrible experience. Thank you.
- avereveard 3y agoLoved the placeholder that you have to delete, that's a classic The form field didn't reset to default values when submitting something that doesn't pass validation, that's probably a little too convenient.
- trizoza 3y agoLove this! There used to be a similar site on HN some time ago, something in a sense "How I see internet these days" and endless pop-ups kept on annoying you. Anyone remembers that?
- user3939382 3y agoYep exactly
- TeMPOraL 3y agoOh, I know that one. It comes built-in as an easter egg in uBlock Origin - you can open it by clicking the big "Power" button that shows after you click the uBO logo in the browser toolbar.
- yccs27 3y agoDoesn't work on Hacker News though
- a13o 3y agoThis is what my nightmares are like. I have to do something simple like fill out a form or unlock a door, and everything that can possibly go wrong goes wrong
- solarkraft 3y agoMy favorite was the "select all" check box.
- mattkevan 3y agoOften thought about designing a print magazine with the same values as a web publication: * Agree to all sorts of scary things to take off the plastic wrapping * Peel off multiple big stickers on every page * Big heavy adverts that overlap the content and weigh pages down * Built-in Tile/Airtag to track location * Chumboxes for other magazines at the bottom of each article ...etc
- atorodius 3y agoThat‘d be a fun art project imo
- Waterluvian 3y agoThis sounds like a local “newspaper” that’s 90% ads. I’ve got one that fully identifies as a newspaper but there isn’t even a single article on the front page.
- morkalork 3y agoEspecially the ones with the sleezy ads on the backpage for massage and other services.
- AlecSchueler 3y agoAnd then give it away for free of course!
- xp84 3y agoNo, only the first couple articles you read are free, the rest are printed in disappearing ink so you get ONLY the ads and pop ups after that until you buy a subscription to the magazine on auto renew.
- danparsonson 3y agoExcellent idea - and every time you try to put it down for a moment a hidden spring triggers and it flies up off the table and into your face
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- cosarara 3y agoI gave up scrolling the terms and conditions.
- Mistletoe 3y agoThis really doesn’t seem that different from most 2023 websites.
- jollyllama 3y agoYou are, of course, exaggerating a bit for rhetorical effect, but it is indeed too close to home. The bulk of my time was spent grappling with things that frequently give me a hassle on real websites. The dialog box The strenuous password requirements Especially the "select all pictures of" bit. Anyone who has tried browsing with a proxy can confirm.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoI literally was unable to purchase something from Currys on my phone, it was so bogged down in JS madness that it just didn't work. It would only work on my computer, and then only in Chromium (the payment flow just stopped loading after entering the card details on Firefox). When I did manage to place the order, the payment was processed twice, so that white loading screen in Firefox did so something. When I picked it up, I was told that they can't process online returns, I would have to take the extra one away, arrange a return online and then bring it back.
- quickthrower2 3y agoNo back button hijack?
- btschaegg 3y agoCame here to say this too. That definitely leaves some UX pessimisation potential on the table.
- mlajtos 3y agoThere is whole subreddit dedicated to these kind of UIs: https://www.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/top/?t=all https://www.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/top/?t=all Enjoy.
- lesuorac 3y agoI'm pretty partial to that draw your countries flag [1] [1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/comments/g4aytv/tired_of_dropdowns_try_our_new_pixel_art_country/ https://old.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/comments/g4aytv/tired_...
- ranting-moth 3y agoexpect order of certain things. User interface is like reading, people
- splittydev 3y ago5m50s, how did I do?
- lkbm 3y ago4:49 for me, but I cheated. My address number is 1744, and I quit incrementing at 5. I suspect it would've been well past 7 minutes if I'd been determined to enter accurate information.
- TheCapn 3y ago3:13! I had some good chuckles at finding "Unselect All" or "Select all Bows". Birthdates not matching on the one form got me too
- jollyllama 3y ago09:21
- mgkimsal 3y ago5:34!
- devmor 3y agoIncredible! I got 3 steps in before I wanted to die.
- vrglvrglvrgl 3y ago[dead]
- mm007emko 3y ago3:10. Honestly, I would expect meatspin at the final page.
- Tokkemon 3y agoMe too. The design brings back memories of those old jumpscare flash games.
- finnh 3y agothe slow-roll "send to bottom" on the chat box is so damn funny
- Tokkemon 3y agoWeb version of Homer disappearing into the bushes.
- titzer 3y agoGetting there! It needs to completely randomize itself about halfway through your workflow. And more ratings! Don't forget to like us and give us five stars. About the exact moment you are ready to finish.
- m3kw9 3y agoIs like a tough game
- dheera 3y agoThe site actually crashed Chrome as soon as I uploaded an file, to the point where even mouse clicks on the address bar or other tabs wouldn't work. I didn't think that was supposed to be possible. I guess we can dig into the code and figure out how to crash peoples' browsers with a website? @ChromeDevTeam Your bug reporting process is too complicated so I'm just leaving this here on the internet for you to find
- TAKEMYMONEY 3y agoNeeds a "sign up for our newsletter!" popover as well
- sgtnasty 3y agoBravo, alas I could not finish, my anxiety got in the way. There are actual gov forms similar this.
- yellowapple 3y ago4:22: https://imgur.com/Wv9zZci https://imgur.com/Wv9zZci Naturally, the process of uploading that screenshot to Imgur made me wonder if I was still in the "experiment".
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- numeromancer 3y agoThe only winning move is not to play.
- ironmagma 3y agoStill HN: frontend development takes no skill
- rabuse 3y agoI do have to say. In all my years (10+) of programming both frontend, and backend, UI is by far the most difficult thing to do properly.
- dredmorbius 3y agoDiscussed previously on HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27635310 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27635310> 2 years ago | 215 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20353724> 4 years ago | 44 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20345826 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20345826> 4 years ago | 1 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20344565> 4 years ago | 214 comments (Re-posts after a year of no significant discussion are permitted.)
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- xp84 3y agoReminds me of the cursed form fields that don’t allow pasting for bank account numbers, which I’ve seen recently at multiple financial sites. What on earth makes them think that typing something manually twice is less error-prone than literally pasting it from a known-good source??
- garysahota93 3y agoThis made my heart boil with rage..... I LOVE IT
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